ECHO Native American Storytellers

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution

Type:

Youtube videos

Uploaded:

2011-02-25T19:53:32.000Z

Video Title:

ECHO Native American Storytellers

Description:

Each year, Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO) brings its Performing Arts Festival to communities across America. Native and non-Native artists from the ECHO partner regions of Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Massachusetts come together to create a performance piece that shares their cultural traditions. This year's performance Celebrate -- Song, Dance & Story! takes us on a journey down life's paths, from childhood to love and marriage and beyond. Through these songs, dances, and stories of challenges and triumphs, we learn the cultural values of these communities -- whether about respect for ancestral ways or the dangers of jealousy and vanity. Visit www.echospace.org closer to the time of the event for a calendar of appearances, pre-and post-visit curriculum materials and performance video. Performed on February 25, 2011 at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Pen and watercolor sketches made by True after artifacts in the Museum of New Mexico. Sketches on both sides of same sheet. On recto, Cheyenne designs for tepees; on verso, Crow designs for war shields.

Native American dioramas exhibited in glass cases with the Catlin Gallery of Indian Paintings along the walls in the background, United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1901.

From "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington." New York: Brentano Brothers, 1886. Page 96

Summary:

Illustration (Fig. 127) in "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington" is of rattles used by Native Americans in their dances. This exhibit was in the section on musical instruments in the United States National Museum.

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first opened to the public on March 17, 1910 as the new United States National Museum. The National Museum was first housed in what is now the Arts and Industries Building.

"Real photo" postcards were first produced using the Kodak "postcard camera." The postcard camera could take a picture and then print a postcard-size negative of the picture, complete with a divided back and place for postage.

Summary:

"Real photo" postcard of an exhibit at the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, showing five Native Americans engaged in various arrow-making tasks. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused. However, there is a penciled note on the message side: "Recd. 3/29/49- Expe. Chg.- 4.94."

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ECHO Native American Storytellers - Day 2

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution

Type:

Youtube videos

Uploaded:

2011-02-28T22:32:55.000Z

Video Title:

ECHO Native American Storytellers - Day 2

Description:

Each year, Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO) brings its Performing Arts Festival to communities across America. Native and non-Native artists from the ECHO partner regions of Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Massachusetts come together to create a performance piece that shares their cultural traditions. This year's performance Celebrate -- Song, Dance & Story! takes us on a journey down life's paths, from childhood to love and marriage and beyond. Through these songs, dances, and stories of challenges and triumphs, we learn the cultural values of these communities -- whether about respect for ancestral ways or the dangers of jealousy and vanity. Visit www.echospace.org closer to the time of the event for a calendar of appearances, pre-and post-visit curriculum materials and performance video. Performed on February 25, 2011 at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Waiting to be photographed by New York City photographer Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934), Native Americans traveling with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show sketch at a table in her studio on 5th Avenue, about 1898. William "Buffalo Bill" Cody selected nine Indians from his touring show to have their portraits made after receiving a letter of inquiry from Kasebier. The photographer maintained long friendships with a few of the Wild West Show's Indians, corresponding with them from 1898 to about 1912. Examples of these letters were published in Everybody's Magazine in January 1901.

Location:

Currently not on view

Subject:

Photography

Gertrude Kasebier

Depicted:

Delaney, Michelle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Kasebier

Item is a copy print. Fraser sculpting, from life, a head of a Native American man later used as the study for the Buffalo nickel. The model is seated on a table.

Provenance:

Copy negative donated 1990 by Eleanore Stalker Foster, along with an unrelated letter from Paul Manship to her father, Hugh Stalker. Copyprints made by SI Photo Lab. It is assumed that Foster's father was the original owner of the photograph.

The Art of Storytelling: Paul Cason 1

Creator:

National Museum of the American Indian

Type:

Youtube videos

Uploaded:

2016-03-02T19:47:20.000Z

Video Title:

The Art of Storytelling: Paul Cason 1

Description:

The National Museum of the American Indian celebrates storytelling with Maidu communities from Northern California. In this segment, Maidu language keeper Paul Cason tells the Maidu creation story with the help of members of the audience. This is the first of two performances by him for the second day of the festival. This program was webcast and recorded in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on February 28, 2016.

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first opened to the public on March 17, 1910, as the new United States National Museum. The National Museum was first housed in what is now the Arts and Industries Building.

"Real photo" postcards were first produced using the Kodak "postcard camera." The postcard camera could take a picture and then print a postcard-size negative of the picture, complete with a divided back and place for postage.

Summary:

"Real photo" postcard of an exhibit of Native American Hupa Indians at the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History. The exhibit caption reads "Hupa Indians, California, National Museum, Smithsonian Institution." The exhibit shows models of five Native Americans, and each appears to be engaged in different tasks preparing food. The postcard is unused, and its front has a white border.